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The London Lightning will be looking forward to their Christmas break after this week.

The Lightning will play three National Basketball League of Canada games in succession beginning Thursday at 7 p.m. at The Gardens.

The Lightning begin with a home-and-home series against the Windsor Express, travelling to Windsor for the second game Friday at the WFCU Centre.

The third game of the three-game run is Saturday again at The Gardens against the Montreal Jazz.

The Express came into the league this year and it will be the first regular season meeting between the two clubs.

The Express are 6-7 in the Central Division but have been improving as the season progresses.

They are led by leading scorer Darren Duncan who has averaged more than 24 points a game for the Express since coming to them in a trade from Halifax Rainmen at the end of November.

The addition of Chris Commons also helped the Express. Since he joined the Express four games ago, he’s had average almost 20 points and seven rebounds a game.

The Express made another move Wednesday, getting former London Lightning player Tyrone Levett from the Moncton Miracles in a trade. But Levett did not want to report to Windsor. He was placed on the inactive reserve list by the Miracles.

In other NBL news, the Miracles fired head coach Rickey Benitez on Wednesday. Serge Langis was named interim coach.

“We’re going to be ready,” said a satisfied looking Lightning coach, Micheal Ray Richardson, at practice Wednesday. “Everybody is going to have a bad game and Saturday was a bad one.”